Category Books

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth »

Authors: Ranen Omer-Sherman
ISBN-13: 9781584652021, ISBN-10: 1584652020
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ranen Omer-Sherman

Ranen Omer-Sherman is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at St. Louis University, Madrid. He has published numerous articles and reviews on 20th-century American Jewish literature.

Book Synopsis

An in-depth exploration of the work of four major writers confronting Jewish nationalism and the fate of the diaspora.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	"Thy People Are My People": Emma Lazarus, Zion, and Jewish Modernity in the 1880s	15
2	"It Will Not Be the Saving Remnant": Marie Syrkin and the Post-Holocaust Politics of Jewish American Identity	68
3	Convivencia, Hybridity, and the Jewish Urban Modernist	110
4	"Palestine Was a Halting Place, One of Many": Diasporism in Charles Reznikoff's Nine Plays and Beyond	151
5	"No Coherence": Philip Roth's Lamentations for Diaspora	191
6	"A Stranger in the House": Assimilation, Madness, and Passing in Roth's Figure of the Pariah Jew in Sabbath's Theater (1995), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000)	234
	Conclusion: Jewish Dreaming, Jewish Geography in a Transitional Age	267
	Notes	283
	Works Cited	315
	Index	335